phraseology

Much of the substance, much even of the phraseology of that earlier work is doubtless repeated here.

Judging by the phraseology I take it to be a late version of the ancient story, probably not more than a century old.

There is no accounting, however, for phraseology, as Mr Carter called the loss of his right eye 'a domestic calamity.'

Nothing to be had out of admitting that it had been a 'nasty jar'—in the phraseology of the day.